Worlds Beyond Number Podcast Becomes $2M Kickstarter Graphic Novel
The popular audio drama podcast 'Worlds Beyond Number', featuring talents like Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson, is set to be transformed into a graphic novel named 'Children's Adventure', which serves as a prequel to the main storyline 'The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One'. Skybound Entertainment, via Image Comics, will publish the graphic novel, with Jadzia Axelrod as the writer and Sarah Webb as the illustrator. The ongoing Kickstarter campaign has surpassed $2 million. In a CBR interview, Axelrod elaborates on the adaptation, explaining the choice to reduce narration and allow visuals to tell the story, while also incorporating new scenes for deeper character exploration. The project reached its funding goal in just four minutes.
Key facts
- Worlds Beyond Number is a hit podcast where Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson play a role-playing adventure as an audio drama.
- The graphic novel adapts the prequel 'Children's Adventure' to the four-season campaign 'The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One'.
- Published by Skybound Entertainment through Image Comics.
- Written by Jadzia Axelrod and drawn by Sarah Webb.
- Kickstarter raised over $2 million and is still funding.
- Axelrod decided to avoid using Brennan's narration in the graphic novel, relying on visuals instead.
- The adaptation compresses several hours of audio into just over 200 pages.
- New scenes were added, such as Eursulon's first glamour, to show character emotions not explicit in the podcast.
- Axelrod consulted with Taylor Moore, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Aabria Iyengar, and Erika Ishii for character and lore insights.
- The project funded in four minutes.
Entities
Artists
- Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Erika Ishii
- Aabria Iyengar
- Lou Wilson
- Taylor Moore
- Jadzia Axelrod
- Sarah Webb
Institutions
- Skybound Entertainment
- Image Comics
- CBR